This looks great (your elisp-fu is impressive) and definitely fulfills making it look markdown-ish. Thanks! Will plug it in tonight and take it for a pain. I am assuming though, from the lack of answers back, that there appears to be no way to have org-mode grok markdown code blocks (triple backticks) when it parses as a substitute for `#+BEGIN_SRC` ? Daryl. On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Diego Zamboni wrote: > Ihor, > > Awesome, thanks for the tip. Using your code, the following config (inside > the code from https://pank.eu/blog/pretty-babel-src-blocks.html) produces > a display with the backticks instead of begin/end_src: > > (defun yant/str-to-glyph (str) > "Transform string into glyph, displayed correctly." > (let ((composition nil)) > (dolist (char (string-to-list str) > (nreverse (cdr composition))) > (push char composition) > (push '(Br . Bl) composition)))) > > (defun rasmus/org-prettify-symbols () > (mapc (apply-partially 'add-to-list 'prettify-symbols-alist) > (cl-reduce 'append > (mapcar (lambda (x) (list x (cons (upcase (car > x)) (cdr x)))) > `(("#+begin_src" . ,(yant/str-to-glyph > "```")) ;; โŽก โžค ๐Ÿ– โžŸ โžค โœŽ > ("#+end_src" . ,(yant/str-to-glyph > "```")) ;; โŽฃ โœ > ("#+header:" . ,rasmus/ob-header-symbol) > ("#+begin_quote" . ?ยซ) > ("#+end_quote" . ?ยป))))) > (turn-on-prettify-symbols-mode) > (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'rasmus/org-prettify-src t t)) > > It looks like this in my config (the bars hide the header arguments): > > [image: image.png] > > --Diego > > > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 6:19 AM Ihor Radchenko wrote: > >> > I did a quick test, and it seems >> > that =prettify-symbols-alist= (which is what this code uses) can only >> > replace for a single character, so I was not able to make it display >> > the three backticks, but there might be other techniques that can be >> > used. >> >> Yes, there is another technique. >> See part of my config below: >> >> >> (defun yant/str-to-glyph (str) >> "Transform string into glyph, displayed correctly." >> (let ((composition nil)) >> (dolist (char (string-to-list str) >> (nreverse (cdr composition))) >> (push char composition) >> (push '(Br . Bl) composition)))) >> >> (append pretty-symbol-patterns >> `(((yant/str-to-glyph " ") org-specific ,(format >> "^\\(\\*\\{%d,%d\\}\\)\\*[^*]" (1- org-inlinetask-min-level) (1- >> org-inlinetask-max-level)) (org-mode) 1) >> ((yant/str-to-glyph "โ‡’โ‡’โ‡’") org-specific ,(format >> "^\\(\\*\\{%d,%d\\}\\)\\(\\*\\)[^*]" (1- org-inlinetask-min-level) (1- >> org-inlinetask-max-level)) (org-mode) 2) >> (?โ•ญ org-specific "^[ ]*#[+]NAME" (org-mode)) >> (?โ•ญ org-specific "^[ ]*#[+]name" (org-mode)) >> (?โ”œ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]begin_src" (org-mode)) >> (?โ”œ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]BEGIN_SRC" (org-mode)) >> (?โ•ฐ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]end_src" (org-mode)) >> (?โ•ฐ org-specific "[ ]*#[+]END_SRC" (org-mode)) >> ((yant/str-to-glyph "๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ“") org-specific ":\\(ATTACH\\):" >> (org-mode) 1) >> ((yant/str-to-glyph "โ˜ D") org-specific "\\> (org-mode)) >> ((yant/str-to-glyph "โ—ดS") org-specific "\\> (org-mode)))) >> >> Diego Zamboni writes: >> >> > Hi Daryl, >> > >> > If it's for display purposes only, you might be able to simply use >> > display substitutions for things to appear the way you want. For >> > example, I use the technique described here: >> > https://pank.eu/blog/pretty-babel-src-blocks.html to replace the >> > begin/end_src strings with symbols. I did a quick test, and it seems >> > that =prettify-symbols-alist= (which is what this code uses) can only >> > replace for a single character, so I was not able to make it display >> > the three backticks, but there might be other techniques that can be >> > used. >> > >> > --Diego >> > >> > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:24 PM Daryl Manning >> wrote: >> >> >> >> While using C-c C-, is easy enough for insertion and such, I was >> wondering if there was any way of having org-mode honour markdown >> conventions for things like code fences and quotes. >> >> >> >> ``` elisp >> >> #+begin_src >> >> #+end_src >> >> >> >> #+begin_quote >> >> #+end_quote >> >> ``` >> >> >> >> being a bit nicer to read with >> >> >> >> ``` go >> >> code block >> >> ``` >> >> as well as >> >> >> >> > And gentlemen in England now-a-bed. >> >> > Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, >> >> > And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks. >> >> > That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. >> >> >> >> Just curious as to whether that's possible. YMMV before you start >> debating on whether you think this is a good idea or not... =] >> >> >> >> Of course, I'd want the code highlighting especially to work that way, >> though... =] Less concerned with whether it works in export modes for the >> moment, more about display atm. >> >> >> >> thanks! >> >> Daryl. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> Ihor Radchenko, >> PhD, >> Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano) >> State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong >> University, Xi'an, China >> Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg >> >